In re Contest of November 8, 2011 General Election of Office of the New Jersey General Assembly, Fourth Legislative District, A-58 September Term 2011; Supreme Court; opinion by LaVecchia, J.; dissent by Rabner, C.J.; decided February 16, 2012. On certification to the Appellate Division. [Sat below: Judge Leone in the Law Division.] DDS No. 21-1-5274 [95 pp.]
In the Nov. 8, 2011, election for the New Jersey General Assembly representatives for the Fourth Legislative District, Gabriela Mosquera received the second highest number of votes. Her election was challenged, in timely fashion under the election statutes, by Shelley Lovett, the candidate who had the third highest number of votes. Lovett alleged that Mosquera was ineligible because she failed to meet Article IV, Section 1, Paragraph 2 of the New Jersey Constitution’s one-year durational residency requirement for the office.
